page_title: Rick Huseman
section_title: Racing career
hierarchical_section_title: Rick Huseman / Racing career
caption_attribution_description: Pro 4 driver w:Rick Huseman doing doughnuts after winning the 2010 Pro 4 World Championship race at w:Crandon International Off-Road Raceway. This file was uploaded with Commonist.
context_page_description: Rick Huseman was an American race driver from Riverside, California. He raced off-road and his career peaked in the highest level in a four wheel drive short course racing truck. He won the 2009 Traxxas TORC Series and 2010 Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series championships before dying in an airplane crash in late 2011. He had won 50 races in his career between Pro Light and Pro 4.
context_section_description: Prior to racing, Huseman worked along with his father at a Ford dealer in Riverside, California.  Huseman attended a 1996 SODA race at Glen Helen Raceway after being a sand dune enthusiast in motorcycles with his brother Danny. The brothers built a Class 7s Pro Light truck for 1997, racing in desert races along with Glen Helen. They attended the Off-Road World Championship races at the Crandon International Off-Road Raceway in 1999 and decided to build a PRO Lite chassis to race in Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR).  Huseman competed for the 2000 CORR season championship finishing ninth of the fifteen drivers. In 2001 he battled Jeff Kincaid for the championship. Kincaid won four races to Huseman's five but Kincaid won the championship by seven points. It was the first of Huseman's four consecutive second-place finishes in the points. 
  Huseman moved to Pro 4 trucks in 2005 when he bought a four-year-old truck from Johnny Greaves. In his first season, he had two podium finishes and finished seventh in the points standings. His team built a new truck for 2006. He won his first Pro 4 race in the following year at Antelope Valley Fairgrounds.  He finished sixth in season points with six finishes in the top five.  In 2008, Huseman was tied for the points lead when CORR closed near the end of the schedule; he was awarded second place on a tie breaker. Huseman had two wins and Carl Renezeder had four. 
  Huseman joined the Traxxas TORC Series (TORC) in 2009 and he took on sponsorship by the series' title sponsor. He won five of the first six races that year, finishing the season with six wins and seven pole positions, and won the series' inaugural championship. Drivers in the series voted him the 2009 TORC Driver of the Year. 
  In the following year he competed in TORC and LOORS. He won 10 of 15 LOORRS events in 2010 which set a short course off-road racing record. He had 13 podium finishes with two 2nd place finishes and one 3rd.  Huseman was named the 2010 Driver of the Year by DirtSports Magazine. He finished second by three points in the TORC season standings. In that series he won five races, three 2nd places finishes and one 3rd. In 2011, Huseman decided to run in just the 2011 LOORS series. After winning the first four races, he added two more wins in rounds 9 and 10. These wins gave him 50 career victories.  He was second in the 2011 LOORRS points when he died.
caption: Huseman celebrating his 2011 Pro 4 World Championship race win at Crandon
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